Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 7 clasps, Martinique, Busaco, Albuhera, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Vittoria, Pyrenees (John Clayton, 7th Foot) minor edge bruising, otherwise good very fine £1400-1600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late John Darwent.

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John Clayton was born at Blackburn, Lancashire, circa 1785, and enlisted into the 7th Foot on 24 April 1805, a cotton printer by trade. He served on the expedition to Martinique in 1808, and then in the Peninsula until he was wounded at Roncesvalles, in the Pyrenees, on 25 July 1813, sustaining a compound fracture of the thigh from a gunshot. He was discharged as a result of this wound, on 23 August 1814, and received a pension of 1s 3d per diem. He later worked in a brewery in Blackburn and died there on 18 January 1848, his death certificate giving cause of death as ‘received a gun shot in 1813 July which never healed but lately has been more troublesome. 34 years 6 months.’ Sold with copy discharge papers and death certificate.